Wednesday, February 25, 2015

"Every man got to legalize it, and don't criticize it Legalize it yeah, yeah, and I will advertise it"

~Peter Tosh~

Some good news came out of Jamaica today.

Jamrock might be the land of the collie weed, but smoking our national plant is actually illegal.

At least it was until now.

"KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Marijuana has been pervasive but illegal in Jamaica for decades, consumed as a medicinal herb, puffed as a sacrament by Rastafarians and sung about in the island's famed reggae music.

After many years of dialogue about the culturally entrenched drug, and emboldened by changes to drug laws in U.S. states, Jamaica's Parliament on Tuesday night gave final approval to an act decriminalizing small amounts of pot and establishing a licensing agency to regulate a lawful medical marijuana industry.

The historic amendments pave the way for a "cannabis licensing authority" to be established to deal with regulating the cultivation and distribution of marijuana for medical and scientific purposes. Both houses of Jamaica's legislature have approved the legislation.

And in a victory for religious freedom, adherents of the homegrown Rastafari spiritual movement can now freely use marijuana for sacramental purposes for the first time on the tropical island.

The law makes possession of up to 2 ounces of marijuana a petty offense that could result in a ticket but not in a criminal record. Cultivation of five or fewer plants on any premises would be permitted.

Tourists who are prescribed medical marijuana abroad will soon be able to apply for permits authorizing them to legally buy small amounts of Jamaican weed, or "ganja" as it is known locally." [Source]

There are a lot of local politicians and law enforcement officials in Jamaica who will not be pleased with this new development. This will mean less money in their pockets.

The rest of us, on the other hand, want to just propose a toke.....

Mr. Tosh, you are a prophet.

Speaking of ganja, Bill O' Reilly might wish he had a smoke now after yet another story of him embellishing stories from his days as a reporter.

"Questions over his reporting from the 1982 riot in Buenos Aires may be just the tip of the iceberg for Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. The embattled "O'Reilly Factor" host is facing new allegations of embellishing his connection to a key moment in the investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.A new report from liberal watchdog Media Matters has gathered evidence against O'Reilly's oft-repeated claim that he was present during the suicide of Russian émigré George de Mohrenschildt, a friend of Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.According to O'Reilly's account of the events of March 29, 1977 in his best-selling non-fiction book "Killing Kennedy," he was at de Mohrenschildt's daughter's home in Florida when the man shot himself with a 20-gauge shotgun. He writes that a "reporter knocked on the door of de Mohrenschildt's daughter's home, he heard the shotgun blast that marked the suicide of the Russian ... that reporter's name is Bill O'Reilly."O'Reilly has repeated this story several times over the years while promoting his book and the Fox News movie special based on it.At the time, O'Reilly was a reporter for WFAA-TV in Dallas, and two of his former colleagues claim that he inserted himself into the story after the fact, and could not have been there at the time."He was not up on the porch when he heard the gunshots, he was in Dallas. He wasn't traveling at that time," Tracy Rowlett, a reporter colleague of O'Reilly's at WFAA, told Media Matters. "I don't remember O'Reilly claiming that he was there. That came later, that must have been a brain surge when he was writing the book."Byron Harris, a reporter at WFAA for the past 40 years, also said O'Reilly was in Dallas at the time, and that if he had been there, WFAA would have reported the story as an exclusive item."He stole that article out of the newspaper," Harris said. "I guarantee Channel 8 didn't send him to Florida to do that story because it was a newspaper story, it was broken by the Dallas Morning News."

Aside from the word of two former colleagues, Media Matters report cites a Palm Beach County Sherrif's Office investigation into de Mohrenschildt's suicide which makes no mention of O'Reilly, and an Associated Press report from the time that states the only people at the home beside de Mohrenschildt were two maids, who did not report hearing a gunshot.Media Matters report also refers to the 1993 autobiography of Gaeton Fonzi, an investigative journalist who reported relentlessly on the Kennedy assassination. In the autobiography, Fonzi seems to indicate that O'Reilly had no first hand knowledge of the suicide:

"About 6:30 that evening I received a call from Bill O'Reilly, a friend who was then a television reporter in Dallas. 'Funny thing happened,' he said. 'We just aired a story that came over the wire about a Dutch journalist saying the Assassinations Committee has finally located de Mohrenschildt in South Florida. Now de Mohrenschildt's attorney, a guy named Pat Russel, he calls and says de Mohrenschildt committed suicide this afternoon. Is that true?'"

Further evidence against O'Reilly was collected by Jefferson Morley, a former editor for The Washington Post, in a post on his website jfkfacts.org." [Source]
Maybe he should change the "no spin zone" to the no lie zone.

"SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A police officer who fatally shot a handcuffed man won't face criminal charges after a grand jury concluded Wednesday that the suspect was armed with a handgun police missed while patting him down.

"I believe the decision the grand jury made should lay this to rest," Heap told reporters at a courthouse news conference.

Savannah-Chatham County police officer David Jannot fatally shot Smith last Sept. 18 shortly after he had been handcuffed and placed in the back of the officer's patrol car. Police said that Smith's hands were cuffed behind his back but that he managed to move them to the front of his body. Smith then kicked out a car window and tried to escape. He was able to get out of the car.The grand jury's four-page report said the officer shot Smith five times after the suspect fled the car with a gun in his hand. Jannot testified Smith "pointed the weapon as if to fire it," the report said, and Smith fell dead with the gun several inches from his hands. Lab tests confirmed Smith's DNA in skin cells were found on the gun's grip and at the base of its ammunition clip."Many Grand Jurors were appalled that the police did not find Smith's gun despite the fact at least three officers are seen on video frisking him," the report said. "... When the police are taking someone into custody who is known to carry a weapon, we would expect them to conduct a thorough search to include the crotch and groin."

Grand jurors recommended Savannah-Chatham police consider revising department procedures on searching suspects for weapons and transporting potentially violent suspects. Smith had struggled with several officers during his arrest before he was placed alone into a patrol car with Jannot.

Smith, who was black, was shot by the white officer barely a month after the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited a national outcry and raised questions about how race factors into police officers' split-second decisions to use lethal force. If there's a key distinction between the two cases, it's that investigators in Missouri confirmed Brown was unarmed. "[Source]

Carry on folks, nothing to see here. Just another young Negro with incredible escapability skills.

Nothing will happen to O'Liely. This is what always happens, liberals and credible journalistic organizations will discipline anyone who goes afoul of the rules of journalism (remember Davis Schuster, Shirley Sherrod, Van Jones, ect) but the right is allowed to lie, insult and conflate to their hearts desire and then blame the people who caught them in lies. This has always been the case, the crooks that did Watergate went on to be stars. Hell, Roland Raygun is a hero with his lying ass. Gotta love conservatives.

"This is what always happens, liberals and credible journalistic organizations will discipline anyone who goes afoul of the rules of journalism (remember Davis Schuster, Shirley Sherrod, Van Jones, ect) but the right is allowed to lie, insult and conflate to their hearts desire and then blame the people who caught them in lies."

Hmmm. I don't think Shirley Sherrod and Van Jones count as having violated rules of journalism. They weren't journalists but rather government workers who were turfed out after right-wing media went after them.

Shirley Sherrod's firing was especially despicable because the cause for her firing was a video that the wingnuts had doctored to make her sound racist against white people. (She is not, and the White House should never have taken seriously an accusation that originated with the vile knuckledraggers at Breitbart.)

I read that the EU is going to be raising their cap on production levels of sugar. This is really bad for Jamaicans because European farmers can produce sugar at a much lower price, when you factor in their EU agricultural subsidies. This is going to devastate the Jamaican sugar industry.

So I guess a lot of former cane farmers are going to be growing weed now, eh?

"Bill O The Clown is on the defensive. All the yelling and screaming won't stop the press from coming after him this time."

I really don't see it happening. The dude would have to rape a baby kitten on-air, while simultaneously burning an American flag and singing the Iranian national anthem.

Fox exists to cater to people who want to be lied to. As long as O'Reilly continues to reliably reinforce his audience's pre-existing prejudices with the appropriate comforting bullshit, he'll have job security forever.

I am incensed that this post attacks O'Reilly's credibility. The man has spent his career as a man of "integrity" and here you Negroes are trying to smear him.

You folks are racist of the worst kind, esp Field, PilotX, Yisheng and Purple Cow. You Negroes are never ever fair and never will be to O'Reilly.

But you will join in the marijuana party in Jamaica which has been illegal since day 1. Now you are celebrating that it's been legalized by a sorry Jamaican government that robs its people of everything.

Hey, let's all give a hearty shout out of congratulations to George Zimmerman after Eric Holder today pronounced him totally 100% innocent of any wrongdoing in Trayvon Martin's death.

After years of investigation, HNIC of the Justice Department Eric Holder declared that George Zimmerman was totally justified when he shot Trayvon Martin in self defense as Martin was trying to bash his brains in on the sidewalk.

I think I speak for all of the Field Negro community when I offer the sincerest apologies to Mr. Zimmerman for all the unfounded and hateful accusations he received on this comment board.

I would also counsel we all reflect on how poorly we treated Mr. Zimmerman, and how much work needs to be done cleaning up our own houses.

"Hey, let's all give a hearty shout out of congratulations to George Zimmerman after Eric Holder today pronounced him totally 100% innocent of any wrongdoing in Trayvon Martin's death."

I'm fairly certain that's not how the justice system works. "Insufficient evidence to prosecute" does not mean "pronounced 100% innocent."

But you go ahead and jerk off over your thuggish hero, George Zimmerman. Based on his recent conduct, I'm sure one of these days, he'll beat one of his girlfriends into the hospital, or an early grave, and he'll land in jail anyway.

Took that implicit bias test from PBS and a big F you to the people who call me a racist. I only have a moderate preference for blah people over whites. Would that be somewhere between Louis Farrakahn and Miles Davis?

Secretary of State John Kerry 2/25/2015 -Our citizens, our world today is actually, despite ISIL, despite the visible killings that you see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally— less deaths, less violent deaths today than through the last century.http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2015/02/237898.htm

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper 2/26/2015-When the final accounting is done. 2014 will be the most lethal year in global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled. About half of all attacks including fatalities in 2014 occurred in just three countries, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6-tphjgluI#t=37

There must be a good reason the Obama administration needs to lie about this.

I understand why Obama was forced to lie about the typical family saving $2500 on Obamacare, he wanted to transform America and knew the truth wasn't the correct path to transformation.

BLACKISBEAUTIFUL said...Trust me this blog is not a source of stimuli except for well entrenched ideologies from both sides of the political charade we call democracy... Interesting enough to ignore consistently...>>>>>>

Proof that you're paying more attention to the comment section rather than Field's VERY apropos posts, redundancy intended.And that's EXACTLY what the racists want you to do, get so "lost" in their BS that you loose track of the real message.

HWCU(Historically White College University) 101, most Black folks learn this in college, how racists really work.

Blogger BLACKISBEAUTIFUL said...Give a shout out to the New Mayor in D.C. who REFUSED to allow Jack Ass Republicans to bully her into stopping Marijuana Legalization in the Nations Capitol..

Field she needs to be up for Field Negro of the Day ...

-------------------Ah, whenever there is a story about marijuana BIB comments. He has a devoted interest in weed. He worships them. He also has an interest in those 'weed' stocks he recommended to FN. They ALL have been losers...much like potheads are losers in the world too.

So much for BIB knowing 'anything' about weed except smoking it. You are a big big disappointment with your judgments. Of course, what pothead has good judgment? no reasonable, rational opinions.

No wonder you hide from FN. It's too embarrassing for you.

As far as negativity on FN is concerned, there is none. There is only the truth which is neither positive or negative...now smoke a joint and think about what's been said about truth.

What Yisheng really meant: "most Black folks learn this in college, how to stand out as educated and impressive by marrying a white woman."

1:48 PM----------Josh, you got it all wrong. WW always come after the bm who is smart, sexy and strong. Most bm are just minding their own biz when some ww starts throwing herself at him. What is bm to do except to accept her offer?

If he doesn't shit starts happening to him on campus...first the campus police, then the city cops, then the professors start effing with the poor innocent bm...You know the drill.

Never underestimate the power of ww. Of course, you being White, you know this truism. They actually run the world while letting you think you are in charge.

PC married a ww because he needed power, peace, wisdom and protection.

Anonymous The Racists said...Bīshēng said."And that's EXACTLY what the racists want you to do, get so "lost" in their BS that you loose track of the real message"---

The real message of Stay on the Plantation.

And that would be "lose" track, not "loose".

You lose.

2:09 PM---------Lord have mercy. Anon Inc is now hiring smart racists who can take down the brilliant Yisheng.

Lord, what are the FN Negroes gonna do now? Field, you had better pay your delinquent bills to that company before those well-educated racist trolls destroy Yisheng and every other educated Negro like Purple Cow. If that happens it will be a sad day.

If the anonymous twins haven't been able to prove it by now, I don't find being labeled gay as something insulting. That you're a bigot is your business -- just something else to add to the racism and your self-hatred as a black woman.

I do not envy you in any capacity. You come across as a very miserable person.

There must be a good reason the Obama administration needs to lie about this."

Bill you listed two quotes as if one refutes the other. You do understand that both can be true simultaneously? It is possible for a single year to be the worst year for terrorism AND one of the least violent years on record.

This is because terrorism isn't all that dangerous, statistically speaking. Yeah, sure, someday some terrorist organization could unleash the mother of all terror attacks (a nuclear weapon, or a bioengineered plague, or whatever). That scenario from a Tom Clancy novel could happen ... but it probably never will.

Based on history, war kills WAY more people than terrorism. Most terrorist organizations aren't terribly successful over the longer term (either in killing people or achieving their objectives). So if wars are decreasing globally -- and they are, despite the visibility of a couple very nasty bloodbaths like Syria -- and terrorism is going up, the net effect is that the overall global violent death toll is still going down.

Vox even made an entire video about this subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC45TRP4lq0

On top of all of this, the terrorism figure, taken by itself, says the number of people of people killed in terrorist acts is going up. It does not say who the people are who are getting killed. (Hint: It is mostly not us.)

What kind of brain-dead chadrool needs to draw a distinction between a verb and an adjective whose meanings aren't even similar? I can see drawing a distinction between compliment and complement, fair and fare, or maybe their and they're. But lose-loose?

Oh, wait. My bad. Somebody's been playing "lose" with their spelling and now needs to show how smarts they is!

If you want people to think you're smart, honey, just marry a white woman.

Bill isn't a journalist or reporter. He's in entertainment. Always has been always will be. Your boy Williams was trying to pass himself of as an actual journalist. Your comparing apples and oranges.Now the stories told by Dems in office, that's something serious, but it's best for you to stay in a cartoon world. It makes you feel better. That's what's most important.

"Bill isn't a journalist or reporter. He's in entertainment. Always has been always will be. Your boy Williams was trying to pass himself of as an actual journalist. Your comparing apples and oranges."

You're right! Fox IS a circus and cannot be considered news by any sensible person. The problem, however, is that it appears a large percentage of the U.S. populace are anything but sensible. They have been confused into incorrectly believing that what they hear on that network has some sort of connection to reality.

The day Fox accurately label themselves as "not news" is the day everyone will stop giving them grief.

One thing we don't have in common, racist: Only one of us holds marrying a white woman up to be some supreme feat worthy of bragging about.

We're all intellectuals here at Field's! We're all very smart, have great careers, and are deemed winners by society. In fact, "PC even married a white woman!"

Your words, you self-hating disgrace to black women. Your words.

But you're safe. The other blacks here seem to hate whites so much that they cannot bring themselves to call you out for it because a white person was first to pull your card. Mustn't agree with whitey!

That's rule number uno: Never let no one know, how much truth whitey told, 'cause, you know...

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